Morning Twilight
Morning Twilight

Morning Twilight

Red Barn on Highway 11 - Skagit County WA

Twilight, the short span of time between the first light of dawn and the sun actually rising above the horizon.

Preparing for this post,

I learned something new this morning.

I always thought ‘dawn’ and ‘sunrise,’

‘dusk’ and ‘sunset,’ were synonyms

for the same astronomical events.

They are not.

Dawn is the first light in the morning sky.

Sunrise is when the full ‘circle’ or body of the sun rises and ‘sits’ on the horizon.

Sunset is the when the full ‘circle’ or body of the sun drops below the horizon,

and dusk is last light in the evening sky.

Twilight (Civil, Nautical and Astronomical [don’t ask me to explain all those angles of the sun below the horizon!!])

is the period between dawn and sunrise, and between sunset and dusk.

Interesting huh?

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Initially, I called my post ‘Winter Sunrise,’  and that got me thinking about the terms.

Because this image was taken after dawn but before sunrise,

it technically is morning twilight.

There we go.

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Filled with rich, deep colors,

the morning twilight paints a brilliant backdrop for a rural scene.

Here along Highway 11 between the small northwestern Washington town of Mt. Vernon

and and the tiny town of Bow,

a pleasant red barn sits secure in a line of fir trees,

while large round hay bales

dot the pasture

in the foreground.

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Today is my 29th wedding anniversary,

we were married in 1984,

and we were both 34 at the time.

At first we chose to be married on

February 29th, Leap Day.

But it fell in the middle of the week,

so we moved the date to the 25th,

so it would fall on a weekend,

and our families could more easily attend.

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Besides, I told my husband to be,

if we wed on Leap Day,

we’ll only have an anniversary every four years.

And then, you’ll have to spend four times as much,

each anniversary,

giving me a ‘really expensive’ gift!

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28 Comments

  5. rebecca

    Happy anniversary. I was married in 1984 too…thanks for letting me know how long I’ve been married. Looks like next year is a big one…maybe I can get a nice trip out of it. :)

  15. Betsy Adams

    Happy Anniversary, Madge… Hope you two had a wonderful day. When we go to Arkansas, we enjoy both sunrises and sunsets…. AND–we are up at DAWN (waiting on sunrise) —and we enjoy seeing the sky at DUSK–after watching the sunset…

    Gorgeous photo…
    Hugs,
    Betsy

  18. Pat F.

    Gorgeous picture! This reminds me of “America the Beautiful” song – “O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain…”. You have captured the beautiful yellows in the sky which are reflected on the mountains giving it their purple hue as well as including the barn and the fruited plain. This photo truly screams the beauty of our wonderful country. I love this!

  27. Elaine

    Gorgeous photo! I love the Skagit Valley. So many wonderful barns. Living in Fairbanks I’m very familiar with civil twilight. We get a lot of it here and it adds a lot to our daylight hours, both summer and winter.

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